1.41) Edmund Cleeves Cook | b: Oct. 28/1804 | d: @ 1878? |
1.42) Rebecca Cleeves Cook | b: Oct. 9/1806 | |
1.43) John Cook | b: June 7/1808 | prob. died young |
1.44) Samuel Cook | b: Apr. 8/1809 | |
1.45) Lydia Cook | b: June 4/1811 | |
1.46) John Cook | b: Oct. 14/1813 | |
1.47) Wintrop Cook | b: Feb. 28/1818 | |
1.48) James Cook | b: Oct. 13/1820 | |
1.49)* Francis Cook | b: |
1.41) Edmund Cook married Elizabeth Mars of Country Harbour on Feb. 10/1830, by Rev. Lewis. Elizabeth was born on March 5, 1809, to John and Sophia Mars. Edmund was a farmer and a fisherman. They lived on the East side of Stormont (Township Lot #66), and later moved to Isaac's Harbour. On the 1891 census, Elizabeth was 87, a widow, and living with her son Samuel and family. It also notes that her parents were born in Scotland. I have not been able to find any other information on the Mars family.
Children:
1.411) Mary Ann Cook | b: Apr. 6/1831 | |
1.412) John Joseph Marshall Cook | b: Jan/1833 No further information - probably died young | |
1.413) Martha Arabell Cook | b: June 15/1837 | |
1.414) Louisa Caroline Cook | b: Jan. 10/1840 | |
1.415) Maria Jane Cook | b: July 28/1844 | |
1.416) Lydia E. Cook | b: @ 1852 | |
1.417) Elias Foster Cook | b: @ 1836 (C103) | |
1.418) Joseph Charles Cook | b: Apr. 12/1849 | d: Jan. 8/1923 |
1.419) Samuel Cook | b: @1835 |
1.411) Mary Ann Cook married John Frederick Robar of St. Mary's. They were married by the Rev. Mr. Uniacke on Oct. 27/1853. They lived in the Country Harbour area.
Child:
1.4111) David James Robar | b: @ 1856 | d: 1931 |
1.41111) Mary (Minnie Sarah) Robar | b: @ 1879 | d: 1969 |
1.41112) John C. (Jack) Robar | b: | |
1.41113) James A. Robar | b: | |
1.41114) William Robar | b: @ 1890 | |
1.41115) Lydia Robar | b: | |
1.41116) Roney Starrett Robar | b: Mar. 31/1895 | d: Dec.25/1968 |
1.41117) Valentine Robar | b: Feb. 14/1899 | |
1.41118) Rhoda Robar | b: May 31/1903 | d: Dec.22/1995 |
1.41111) Minnie Robar married Arthur N. Barmby.
Children:
1.411111) Helen Barmby. (Married Thomas Baker)
1.411112) Robert Barmby
1.41112) John C. Robar migrated to Royal Oak, Michigan. He was a member of the Masonic order. He married Margaret Pender.
Child:
1.411121) Donna Jane Robar (Married Robert Burns; three children)
1.41113) James Robar served overseas in WWII. He was a contractor and builder in Saint John prior to migrating to Saskatoon, Sask. He married Dorothy Dugay.
1.41114) William Robar was a veteran of World War I, serving in the Merchant Marines. He married Leona Hayes, daughter of Marshall and Annie (Davidson) Hayes. {Marshall Hayes was a son of Edmund Cook Hayes and Louisa (Cook) Hayes}
1.41116) Roney Robar was a seaman in his younger years. He migrated to Kirkland lake Ontario. He was a veteran of the Royal navy in WWI., and a member of the Masonic Lodge. He married Katherine Pride of Sonora, N.S.
1.41118) Rhoda Robar married Archibald Milton Darrach.
No further information on any others of the Robar family at this time.
1.413) Martha Cook married Henry? Jordan. No further information.
1.414) Louisa Cook married Edmund Hayes (#1.422) on Feb. 17/1857.
Children:
1.4141) Mary Ann Hayes | b: @ 1860 | |
1.4142) Harriet Jane Hayes | b: @ 1863 | |
1.4143) Priscilla Hayes | b: @ 1866 | d: 1942 |
1.4144) Leannis Hayes | b: @ 1870 | |
1.4145) Sarah Elizabeth Hayes | b: June 25/1875 | d: Aug.28/1948 |
1.4146) Marshall W. Hayes | b: @ 1877 | d: 1944 |
1.4147) Jessie Lois Hayes | b: @ 1880 |
1.415) Maria Cook never married. She moved to U.S.A. while quite young.
1.416) Lydia Cook married Joseph Hayes (#1.424) on Jan. 16/1873, at Melrose.
Children:
1.4161) Joseph A. Hayes | b: 1907 | d: 1983 |
1.4162) Alfred Charles Hayes | b: @ 1878 | d:1955 |
1.4163) Leonard B. Hayes | b: June 16/1875 | d: Aug. 1954 |
1.4164) Eugenia Hayes (Jean) | b: ? | |
1.4165) Minnie Hayes | b: ? |
1.417) Elias Foster Cook married Priscilla McConnel (b: @ 1841, d: Aug.8/1897) on Jan. 15/1860, at St. Mary's. Elias and Priscilla lived at Stormont, on the East side, facing the harbour, and for a time, at Wine Harbour, where some of the children were born, and where Elias mined gold.
Children:
1.4171) Tyrus Cook | b: Oct. 2/1862 |
1.4172) Louisa Caroline Cook | b: Sept. 30/1866 |
1.4173) Edmund Cook | b: May 14/1874 |
1.4174) Elias Foster Cook | b: May 22/1874 |
1.4175) Russell Cook | b: Apr. 8/1869 |
1.4176) William B. Cook | b: Aug. 2/1871 No further information |
1.4171) Tyrus Cook was a gold miner. He married @ 1892,
Dellis Myers (b: Oct. 27/1873). She was a daughter of Stephen and Amy (Latham) Myers of Goldboro. She died of breast cancer, in 1940. Tyrus died in 1928, of stomach cancer.
Children:
1.41711) Carrie Lee Cook | b: Sept. 16/1894 | |
1.41712) Eddy Cook | b: Jan./1897 | d: Apr. 29/1897 |
1.41713) William Cook | b: July 7/1898 | d: Dec. 8/1904 |
1.41714) Effie May Cook | b: Dec. 23/1900 | |
1.41715)Amy Cook | b: 1903 | |
1.41716) Clarence Cook | b: 1906 |
1.41711) Carrie Lee Cook married Warren E. Pace from West Liscomb, on Oct. 7/1915. No further information.
1.41714) Effie May Cook died on May 25, 1911 of Diptheria, and is buried at Isaac's Harbour North.
1.41715) Amy Cook married Thomas David James Bennett, son of Andrew and Martha (Jordan) Bennett of Indian Harbor, on Nov. 20, 1928.
1.41716) Clarence Cook married Mable Riley of Indian Harbour, daughter of Joseph and Alice (Pickett) Riley, on Sept. 11, 1928. C102
1.4172) Louisa Cook married Wintrop Mason (#1.4511).
Children:
1.41721) Stanford Mason | b: Nov.22/1887 |
1.41722) Violet Belle Mason | b: Apr. 17/1891 |
1.41723) Leslie Mason | b: Jan. 12/1892 |
1.41724) Blanche Lydia Mason | b: July 8/1894 |
1.41725) Edna Mason | b: Sept.25/1896 |
1.41726) Abner Mason | b: Apr. 25/1898 |
1.41727) Winnie Mason | b: Feb. 18/1901 |
1.42728) Harold Mason | b: ? |
1.41721) Stan Mason married Alma Clyburne.
1.41722) Violet Mason married Harry M. Feltmate, (b: 1893) son of Ephraim C. and Elceba (Croft) Feltmate, Whitehead, N.S. This family migrated to the Timmins, Ontario area.
Children:
1.417221) Seward Stanley Feltmate | b: | |
1.417222) Albert Leslie Feltmate | b:: | |
1.417223) Lawrence Murdoch Feltmate | b: Jan. 1/1921 | d: 1995: |
1.4173) Edmund Cooke married Bessie B. Latham, daughter of John and Jane Latham, Isaac's Harbour, on Nov. 14/1900.
Children:
1.41731) Priscilla Jane Cooke | b: 1911 | |
1.41732) John Cooke | b: ? | |
1.41733) Edith Cooke | b: ? | |
1.41734) Thelma Bessie Cooke | b: @ 1911 | d: July 29/1996 |
1.41735) Ina Cooke | b: | |
1.41736) Gertrude Cooke | b: |
Of the above, Priscilla married Ellis Murray Davidson, son of John C. and Emma (Hingley) Davidson.
Gertrude married ________ Hennessey.
Thelma married Kenneth C. McGillivary in 1928.
1.4174) Foster Cook married Martha Jane (Janie) Silver. Janie died young. Three of their daughters, Margaret, Daisy, and Olive were brought up by John and Elsie Hayne, Country Harbour.
Children:
1.41741) Mary Cook | b: ? | |
1.41742) Gladys Cook | b: ? | |
1.41743) Margaret Elizabeth Cook | b: Mar.14/1925 | d: Mar.12/1995 |
1.41744) Daisy Belle Cook | b: @ 1927 | |
1.41745) Olive Cook | b: @ 1929 | d: young (TB) |
1.41746) Tyrus Cook | b: ? | |
1.41747) Louise Cook | b: ? |
1.4175) Russell Cooke married Laurilla Maria Langley. She was born July 3/1874 at Shubenacadie, and was a daughter of Moses and Margaret Langley. (C104) They were married Dec. 9/1893 at Isaac's Harbour, N.S.
Russell went to sea at age 12 as Ship's cook, running between the West Indies, U.S.A., and Canada. In his early 20's, he left the sea, and became a miner for a good number of years. They lived in various mining communities throughout eastern Nova Scotia. He later settled at Springville, Pictou County.
Russell was also well-known for "witching" water (predicting where water was located underground for wells). He was interested in sports, played hockey and skated at an advanced age. He died on Dec. 25, 1952. Laurilla died on Aug. 15, 1958.
Russell and Laurilla Cooke's Children:
1.41751) Orris Stephen Cooke | b: June 17/1895 | d: Sept. 1/1971 |
1.41752) Byron Foster Cooke | b: Oct. 25, 1894 | |
1.41753) Edward Charles Cooke | b: Oct. 12/1898 | d: 1969 Vancouver, BC |
1.41754) Brenton Cooke | b: Apr. 20/1900 | |
1.41755) Roland Lee Cooke | b: 1907 Goldbrook, NS | |
1.41756) Hugh A. Cooke | b: 1912 | d: Dec. 3/1994 Never married |
1.41757) Daisy Lillian Cooke | b: Nov. 16/1916 | |
1.41758) Edith Cooke | b: Nov. 18/1909 | |
1.41759) Florence Cooke | d: a baby | |
1.4175 10) James Spurgeon Cooke | b: Nov. 16/1902 | d: 1980 |
1.41751) Orris Cooke lived at Springville, Pictou Co. He was a carpenter, and a veteran of World War 1. He married 1st) Vera Langley, daughter of Harvey and Florence Langley of Isaac's Harbour (d: Aug. 25,1952), and
2nd) Florence Davidson.
1.41752) Byron Cooke was a veteran of WW I. He lived at Trenton, N.S. He married Etta Arbuckle of New Glasgow, in 1919.
1.41753) Edward Cooke served for many years with the Cdn. Merchant Marines in WWII. He married Mary Ellen McKenna in 1918.
1.41754) Brenton Cooke ?
1.41755) Roland Cooke was a veteran of WW II. He married Ada Isabel Buck. They lived at Irish Mountain, Pictou Co., N.S., and in the U.S.
1.41757) Daisy Cooke married 1st) William Frederick Brennan, and
2nd) Clarence MacDonald.
1.41758) Edith Cooke married Jack Robertson.
1.4175 10Spurgeon Cooke married Rachel Gilmen Grant in 1924 at New Glasgow.
1.418) Charles Cooke followed the sea all of his life, working first as a fisherman out of Stormont, then as a crewman aboard a schooner. He eventually became a Captain and owned several schooners at different times, including the Ella May, Gentile, and Dark Secret.
Charles married Elizabeth Macbeth Findlay (Betsy), (b: Oct. 2/1855, d: 1910), on Feb. 15/1872, in the Church of England, Country Harbour. Betsy was the 17 year old daughter of William and Margaret (Addison) Findlay, who immigrated from Banff, Scotland in 1867. The Findlays settled on the west side of Country Harbour.
Children:
1.4181) William Marcus Cooke | b: Aug. 15/1872 | d: Nov. 19/1950 |
1.4182) Zelda Zuleika Cooke | b: Aug. 22/1874 | d: Jan. 6/1877 |
1.4183) Hugh Allen Cooke | b: 1877 | d: 1906 |
1.4184) Leander John Cooke | b: Mar. 12/1883 | d: Mar. 27/1969 |
1.4185) Tremaine Hollis Cooke | b: Mar. 5/1890 | d: Aug. 11/1964 |
1.4186) Winnifred Cooke (adopted) |
1.4181)
Marcus Cooke worked his way up through the ranks of seafaring vessels, and became a Master Mariner, then Captain of various ships. One well known schooner he was Master of was the tern John A. Beckerman, 241 feet long with 2 decks. It carried mostly lumber to New York, Boston and other New England ports. He married Sarah Elizabeth (Bessie) Hayes , (#1.4145) on Feb. 10/1897. Both she and their two sons often accompanied Marcus on his sea voyages.
Children:
1.41811) Bertram Allen Cooke | b: July 28/1898 | d: Sept. 27/1941 |
1.41812) Harold Addison Cooke | b: 1902 | d: Aug. 16/1956 |
1.41813) Adelaide Cooke (adopted) b: 1914 | d: Mar.16/1930 |
1.41811) Bertram Cooke married Annabelle Davidson. They had no children. Bert was killed in an accident at Seal Harbour Gold Mines. He was struck across the chest by a heavy steel cable when an electric hoist clutch band broke. The cable pierced his heart, and brought death almost instantly. Annabelle later married Norman James Armstrong. She died in 1992.
1.41812) Harold Cooke (Hal) married Alberta Kirby (b: Apr. 14/1909, d: Dec. 30/1996), on June 20/1927. She was the daughter of Burton and Marjorie (MacKenzie) Kirby of Upper Whitehead, N.S. Many years after Hal Cooke died, she married Charlie Cook (#1.4721 ).
1.4182) Zuleika Cooke died at age 2 during a diptheria epidemic. Between the months of January and March, 1877, more than twenty children died in the communities of Isaac's Harbour, Stormont and Country Harbour.
1.4183) Hugh Allen Cooke was killed in a mining accident at Stellarton, N.S. He was 28 years old and engaged to be married.
1.4184) Leander Cooke became a Master Mariner and Captain of various vessels, including the Lewis and the Albertha. He also survived several shipwrecks. He married Margaret Martin (Maggie) (b: 1883, d: 1968), on Jan. 26/1910. She was the daughter of Capt. & Mrs. John Martin of Dartmouth, N.S. Although they were married by Rev. Y.O. Weeks, a Baptist minister, Maggie remained true to her RC faith, and is buried in St. Peter's Cemetery, Dartmouth. Leander is buried in the cemetery at Isaac's Harbour.
Children:
1.41841) Hugh Cooke | b:Oct. 27/1910 | d: Dec. 30/1996 |
1.41842) Leo Cooke | b: Nov. 1/1912 | d: Oct. 31/1975 |
1.41843) Lawrence Addison Cooke | b: July 29/1917 | d: 1957 |
1.4185) Tremaine Cooke was a veteran of both World Wars. He married Lena Mae Langley (#1.491141), daughter of Arthur and Bertha Langley, Isaac's Harbour North, on Nov. 25, 1912. Tremaine was the lighthouse keeper on Green Island in the 1920's. He and Lena divorced, and all the children except Frank were placed in foster homes. The youngest daughter, Irene, was adopted by a family in Cape Breton. Tremaine moved to Milton, Queens County, N.S. After many years, Tremaine and Lena reunited and married again at Milton, N.S., on Sept. 26, 1953.
1.419) Samuel Cook was a fisherman at Isaac's Harbour. He married Annie J. Hayes , daughter of Jonathan and Rebecca (Cook) Hayes (b: 1839), on Oct. 15/1860, at Country Harbour. Annie was only 40 years old when she died in 1879.
Children:
1.4191) Leander S. Cook | b: Jan. 7/1861 | |
1.4192) Martha Arabella Cook (Belle) | b: Apr. 12/1863 | d: 1936 |
1.4193) Olivia Alice Cook | b: Jan. 24/1865 | |
1.4194) John Charles Cook | b: Oct. 14/1866 | |
1.4195) Maria Jane Cook | b: Dec. 7/1868 | |
1.4196) Laurella Ann Cook | b: Oct. 6/1869 | d: 1960 |
1.4197) Florence Cook | b: Jan. 22/1874 | |
1.4198) Robert Emmit Cook | b: Nov. 13/1874 | |
1.4199) Samuel Bruce Cook | b: Nov. 2/1876 | d: Oct. 6/1955 |
1.4191) Leander Cook married Effie J. Myers (b: 1871).
Effie died at age 26 in 1897.
1.4192) Belle Cook married William Leretus Hines on Jan. 30/1884 at Isaac's Harbour.
Child:
1.41921) Winnifred Hines | b: Oct. 18/1886 |
1.4193) Olivia Cooke married George Stewart.
1.4194) John Charles Cook married Varina Belle Davidson, daughter of James and Mary Davidson, on July 13/1895. They lived at Isaac's Harbour North. They had no children.
1.4195) Maria Cook married George Clyburne.
1.4196) Laurella Cook married Ira Lewis Fenton (#1.4414).
Children:
1.41961) Lola Deferris Fenton | b: Oct. 31/1894 | |
1.41962) Effie Belle Fenton | b: Dec. 3/1897 | d: Aug. 2/1969 |
1.41963) Alice Yvette Fenton | b: Oct. 20/1902 | d: 1925 |
1.4197) Florence Cook married Harvey B. Langley on July 15/1893. He was the son of Moses and Margaret Langley, and a brother of Laurilla Langley, who married Russell Cooke (#1.4175).
Children:
1.41971) Vera M. Langley | b: Feb. 10/1895 |
1.41972) Verne Langley | b: June 13/1897 |
1.4198) Emmit Cook never married.
1.4199) Bruce Cook married Alice Clyburne @ 1904.
Children:
1.41991) Samuel Howard Edison Cooke | b: 1905 | d: Apr. 3/1970 |
1.41992) Errington Cooke | b: Nov.25/1913 | |
1.41993) Rita Cooke | b: 1909 | d:1946 |
1.41994) Joyce Cooke | b: Sept. 1/1901 | d: 1985 |
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